Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

[Phil Morrell]

On 25 January 2025 08:07:04 GMT, "Julien Plissonneau Duquène" 
<sre4e...@free.fr> wrote:
>Le 2025-01-24 22:43, tho...@goirand.fr a écrit :
>> What you experience shows one thing: having the default branch being
>> set correctly should be what we mandate.

We already do "If no branch is specified, the packaging should be on the 
default branch" but we're only human 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-vcs-fields

>That's one thing, but going one step further, NOT pushing upstream branches to 
>the packaging repositories may help here as well.

I'm going to have to disagree with this part, the whole point of DEP14 is that 
our debianisms are namespaced, so there's no harm in pushing all branches.